Personal Update–7/17/2020

 Posted by at 9:58 am  Open Thread, Personal, Politics
Jul 172020
 

It’s a crazy day here in the CatBox.  My cable service went down for about three hours this morning, negating my ability to do research.  Then my palliative care nurse came to change my patch.  I’ll be back in the saddle tomorrow, and off on Sunday.  TGIF!

Jig Zone Puzzle:

Today’s took me 5:29 (average 8:31).  To do it, click here.  How did you do?

Cartoon:

Trump* Virus Update:

0717TrumpVirusMap

US Cases: 3,698,358
US Deaths: 141,150

RESIST!!

Vote Blue No Matter Who Top to Bottom!!

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  12 Responses to “Personal Update–7/17/2020”

  1. Joanne Dixon says:
    July 17, 2020 at 10:11 am

    Hope all goes smoothly!

    Rachel and Mary – four videos – they should have CC



    If you are not a teacher in Florida, you can still get a legal will made for free, courtesy of Public Citizen They say under 20 minutes, but I know mine would take longer. Fortunately, it’s already done.

    Not an ad – just a story – hanky alert.

    Really American

    Lincoln Project – Story Hour #2

    Cartoon – Yup.

    Map – It’ll break four million by August 1. And I’m no expert.

  2. P Bowen says:
    July 17, 2020 at 10:17 am

    Cartoon: Yep. Every.single.day! 
    TVU: Not going away either. Getting horribly out of control too. 

    Sorry to read about your cable this morning. Ours goes out periodically, and it is an inconvenience.  Glad that you got your patch changed, do take good care. Get your rest, nap and relax. Thanks, Tom. 

    *This just in: Q: Anyone watch Mary T. on Rachel M’s show last night? A: It was great. Then I watched it on the MSNBC clips this morning, excellent Q’s, and great answers all around. imho. Love Rachel’s show. *pb
    1. “Failure of Leadership this is, because he (dt) is incapable of succeeding at it.” (responsibility). ~ Mary Trump~
    2. “Trump doesn’t want us to know what the real numbers are. He knows he’s failed. He’s like the kid grabbing the report card from the mailbox before anyone can see it. But…we’ll find out how bad he’s doing when we all have to make coffins in shop class. ~Bob Geiger to Stephen Colbert ~
    3. “Oops!! They cut funding for shop classes.” ~ Cranky A. ~ 
    4. “Mary Trump’s book is being translated into Crayola. The only way dt will be able to read it. ~ Stuart M. ~ 
     

  3. JL says:
    July 17, 2020 at 10:22 am

    Identified that one of my state’s websites (the one with the monitoring data at the county level) has lower numbers than the daily caseload website and is the one weather.com uses, so my county’s number shows now at about 50 lower than the county’s website shows.  You should only need one guess which the replacement agency would use that the president wants to get the data from hospitals (which will exclude the 40% or so states report are from nursing homes and other congregate residential living and those who died at home) instead of the CDC………
    Around here people are reporting tech issues consonant with bandwidth strangling at odds with what they pay to get.
    Take good care and glad the pain is getting managed.

  4. Colleen L says:
    July 17, 2020 at 6:15 pm

    Cartoon: Awful that these R’s practice and preach these dreadful steps each day. 
    TVU: We had another high number of cases today. Scary.
    I can relate to your frustrations today, with the cable not working. What I have been having is the network keeps dropping out. 
    Plus I hope that your palliative care nurse came at a decent time and took care of changing your patch.
    Hope the rest of your day got better.
    Take care. Thanks TomCat

  5. Lona Goudswaard says:
    July 17, 2020 at 7:42 pm

    I’m glad you had your patch changed, TomCat. That should help with your back pain.

    3:48 Good boy.

    Cartoon: Now it’s become Republican norm, not only just for Teabaggers.

    Update: As bad as they look, I’m afraid these figures and graphs are no longer very reliable. This is what my ABC news had to say about it:

    In the latest development, the New York Times reported this week the CDC has even been bypassed in its data collection, with the Trump administration ordering hospitals to send COVID-19 data directly to the White House.

    [] the new database will not be available to the public, prompting inevitable questions over the accuracy and transparency of data which will now be interpreted and shared by the White House.

    [] during the greatest public health emergency in a century, it appears the CDC has been almost entirely erased by the White House as the public face of the COVID-19 pandemic response.

    “They have been sidelined,” said Howard Koh, former US assistant secretary for health. “We need their scientific leadership right now.”

    [] epidemiologists and public health experts around the world fear the new system will make it harder for people outside the White House to track the pandemic or access information.

    This affects all nations, because one of the CDC’s roles is to provide sound, independent public health guidance on issues such as infectious diseases, healthy living, travel health, emergency and disaster preparedness, and drug efficacy.

  6. SoINeedAName says:
    July 18, 2020 at 8:13 am

    I really like that map.  It provides a much cleaner & clearer view of what’s happening.

    • Joanne Dixon says:
      July 18, 2020 at 9:52 am

      It does show a trend, which the ones with total cases per 100,000 don’t.  The other map I like and have bookmarked is the risk-by-county map.  It’s not perfect either, but it helps.

  7. TomCat says:
    July 18, 2020 at 11:37 am

    Thanks and way late hugs to all! 26

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